I updated my Galaxy S to 2.2 few days ago with Kies, but it actually made things worse. My GPS worked just fine on 2.1, never had any of the problems people have been complaining about. After the update my GPS is completely useless.
You sound like you never heard of mplayer. I have been watching anime on Linux weekly for years, in several formats like mpeg, divx, realmedia and mkv!
B.S.
Softsubs were relatively recently properly implemented in Mplayer. (Though "couple of years" technically is "for years" too.)
Well, if I recall correctly, on VLC softsubs have worked quite a while. Don't know about mplayer, because it was only recently I noticed that it had support for ASS subtitles. It just had to be enabled manually. Even without enabling them, mplayer still could display the subs, they just were horrible to watch. VLC worked fine.
Likewise, proper MKV support is also very young. Before Mplayer wasn't demuxing the files properly nor could switch between audio/subtitle channels on the file. Due to bogus demuxing audio skips were also common.
Never seen anything like this. Though I never wanted to hear English dubs, so don't know about audio channels. Nowadays they do work, since I've watched some movies with multiple audio channels.
By the way, what does 'proper support' mean? I mean, I've never had any problems whatsoever.
I'm not an Ubuntu user, I love the simplicity of elden distros like Debian and Slackware.
Well, there's your problem.
Maybe it's just that Ubuntu doesn't have an mplayer package, or has its very own "Super Cool Ubuntu Media Player" that overshines it. Could anybody enlight me?
There is mplayer in Ubuntu (not installed by default). And it even ships with VDPAU-support (well, in 9.10). And if one chooses to use Totem media player (that's the shiny one you're talking about), it actually downloads the required codecs from the repositories (no searching the Internets, incredible huh?), and it just works. Anyways, all the codecs (atleast most used codecs) ARE available in the repos.
Audio on Linux is a total mess, unless of course you are lucky to have single sound card in your PC (and distro of your choice hasn't succumbed to PulseAudio madness). Many have at least two, since modern MBs have some primitive card always on-board. Managing two sound cards under Linux is still a must, since most applications (Mplayer included) do not integrate with KDE or Gnome and bypass most of the configuration.
Yeah, audio sucks on Linux. Without Pulseaudio everything basically just works (and on OSS4 even better). On the issue of several sound cards I don't have much to say, other than that problem probably exists only on minority. Why would a normal user want to use several sound cards? (The onboard one can be disabled from the BIOS, and it's possible from Linux also).
Nevertheless, even with Pulseaudio everything has worked for me. No playing around. Except when Pulseaudio decides to cap one core to the max. Or just crashes, or decides that I don't need to hear any sounds, but that's another story.
Video and video acceleration is much cleaner on Linux. In sense that it is completely absent. And to smoothly playback H.264 files of 720p/bigger resolutions one need either H/W accelerated video playback (which is mostly absent) or properly optimized H.264 decoder (and forked ffmpeg of Mplayer isn't).
Well first of all, 720p should play smoothly even on an older dual core (and even single core, haven't tested it though). My laptops Core Duo 1.6ghz plays even 1080p video smoothly, although on lower bitrates only.
Second of all, there IS hardware acceleration support on Linux, both with Nvidia and Ati cards. Nvidias VDPAU support is compiled in mplayer found in Ubuntu repos (9.10, once again). For what I've read, there's some support even for Ati cards.
I've watched anime for years, but on Linux only since 2005 when I made The Jump(tm).
Except for the fact that the auditory system most certainly works bilaterally. The parent is wrong -- auditory fibers decussate while still in the brainstem before projecting to the medial geniculate.
Indeed. The cochlear nucleus is the only part that receives input from the ipsilateral ear. After that, auditory input comes from both ears (via superior olive -> inferior colliculus -> medial geniculate -> auditory cortex).
Even though the street protests are fine and dandy (and lawful), I do have to remind that the same group did engage in a DDoS-attack against CoS. Which at least in my book nullifies any effort against CoS done by "Anonymous".
Also having masks in a public demonstration shows bad form from the protesters.
That's mainly because
1) Masks may arouse fear in the general public. Be it because of terrorism or something else, it should be considered.
2) Having masks might lessen the impact of the demonstration (in the general public). For me that only shows that the individuals who are participating in the protest do not believe in the ideals they claim to support.
3) Enforcing your own cultural ideas inside another culture is probably a bad idea. For example, like Islamist groups try to enforce their cultural ideas inside Christian cultures. Or vice versa.
Now, some of the slashdotters have noted that wearing masks protects the protesters from CoS, and that is a valid argument. I do support anonymity, and I do think that people should be free to wear masks if they want to do so, but wouldn't it be bad if you were thought to be terrorists because of that..? (That might reflect the stupidity of the general public, but it should be considered if you really care about the message you're trying to convey.)
As a sidenote, I do not support CoS nor the religion they claim to represent.
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I updated my Galaxy S to 2.2 few days ago with Kies, but it actually made things worse. My GPS worked just fine on 2.1, never had any of the problems people have been complaining about. After the update my GPS is completely useless.
You sound like you never heard of mplayer. I have been watching anime on Linux weekly for years, in several formats like mpeg, divx, realmedia and mkv!
B.S.
Softsubs were relatively recently properly implemented in Mplayer. (Though "couple of years" technically is "for years" too.)
Well, if I recall correctly, on VLC softsubs have worked quite a while. Don't know about mplayer, because it was only recently I noticed that it had support for ASS subtitles. It just had to be enabled manually. Even without enabling them, mplayer still could display the subs, they just were horrible to watch. VLC worked fine.
Likewise, proper MKV support is also very young. Before Mplayer wasn't demuxing the files properly nor could switch between audio/subtitle channels on the file. Due to bogus demuxing audio skips were also common.
Never seen anything like this. Though I never wanted to hear English dubs, so don't know about audio channels. Nowadays they do work, since I've watched some movies with multiple audio channels.
By the way, what does 'proper support' mean? I mean, I've never had any problems whatsoever.
I'm not an Ubuntu user, I love the simplicity of elden distros like Debian and Slackware.
Well, there's your problem.
Maybe it's just that Ubuntu doesn't have an mplayer package, or has its very own "Super Cool Ubuntu Media Player" that overshines it. Could anybody enlight me?
There is mplayer in Ubuntu (not installed by default). And it even ships with VDPAU-support (well, in 9.10). And if one chooses to use Totem media player (that's the shiny one you're talking about), it actually downloads the required codecs from the repositories (no searching the Internets, incredible huh?), and it just works. Anyways, all the codecs (atleast most used codecs) ARE available in the repos.
Audio on Linux is a total mess, unless of course you are lucky to have single sound card in your PC (and distro of your choice hasn't succumbed to PulseAudio madness). Many have at least two, since modern MBs have some primitive card always on-board. Managing two sound cards under Linux is still a must, since most applications (Mplayer included) do not integrate with KDE or Gnome and bypass most of the configuration.
Yeah, audio sucks on Linux. Without Pulseaudio everything basically just works (and on OSS4 even better). On the issue of several sound cards I don't have much to say, other than that problem probably exists only on minority. Why would a normal user want to use several sound cards? (The onboard one can be disabled from the BIOS, and it's possible from Linux also).
Nevertheless, even with Pulseaudio everything has worked for me. No playing around. Except when Pulseaudio decides to cap one core to the max. Or just crashes, or decides that I don't need to hear any sounds, but that's another story.
Video and video acceleration is much cleaner on Linux. In sense that it is completely absent. And to smoothly playback H.264 files of 720p/bigger resolutions one need either H/W accelerated video playback (which is mostly absent) or properly optimized H.264 decoder (and forked ffmpeg of Mplayer isn't).
Well first of all, 720p should play smoothly even on an older dual core (and even single core, haven't tested it though). My laptops Core Duo 1.6ghz plays even 1080p video smoothly, although on lower bitrates only.
Second of all, there IS hardware acceleration support on Linux, both with Nvidia and Ati cards. Nvidias VDPAU support is compiled in mplayer found in Ubuntu repos (9.10, once again). For what I've read, there's some support even for Ati cards.
I've watched anime for years, but on Linux only since 2005 when I made The Jump(tm).
Actually, Elisa dropped the filtering some time ago. Now it's available as opt in service.
If I recall correctly, only the smaller ISPs have the filtering in place.
Except for the fact that the auditory system most certainly works bilaterally. The parent is wrong -- auditory fibers decussate while still in the brainstem before projecting to the medial geniculate.
Indeed. The cochlear nucleus is the only part that receives input from the ipsilateral ear. After that, auditory input comes from both ears (via superior olive -> inferior colliculus -> medial geniculate -> auditory cortex).
Even though the street protests are fine and dandy (and lawful), I do have to remind that the same group did engage in a DDoS-attack against CoS. Which at least in my book nullifies any effort against CoS done by "Anonymous".
Also having masks in a public demonstration shows bad form from the protesters.
That's mainly because
1) Masks may arouse fear in the general public. Be it because of terrorism or something else, it should be considered.
2) Having masks might lessen the impact of the demonstration (in the general public). For me that only shows that the individuals who are participating in the protest do not believe in the ideals they claim to support.
3) Enforcing your own cultural ideas inside another culture is probably a bad idea. For example, like Islamist groups try to enforce their cultural ideas inside Christian cultures. Or vice versa.
Now, some of the slashdotters have noted that wearing masks protects the protesters from CoS, and that is a valid argument. I do support anonymity, and I do think that people should be free to wear masks if they want to do so, but wouldn't it be bad if you were thought to be terrorists because of that..?
(That might reflect the stupidity of the general public, but it should be considered if you really care about the message you're trying to convey.)
As a sidenote, I do not support CoS nor the religion they claim to represent.
--I'm not Anonymous, I'm fisuk.